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#sumirs3cjams

Posted by S3C - January 1st, 2016


Hello NewGrounders, and happy new year. Or as I like to say, have an absolutely splending, profound arbitary celestial orthogonalization day. No one day is inherently more important than the other and deserving of  special celebration. Each day has the potential to be beautiful or catastrophic. No point in making resolutions today when you could (should) have made them countless days ago and stop anytime you please.

in my previous post, I discussed #sumirs3cjams (hashtag included to make this project more hip and retweetable to all my followers). i have always intended to submit to the audio portal more, but regarded this as a place to showcase high quality works. or at the very least, made submissions that were applicable to be included in flash submissions. but there are two contradictions in this statement:  #1 my work pales in comparison to some of the audio greats that have graced this fine artistic establishment  & #2 I stand firmly by NewGrounds' (retired?) old slogan "everything by everyone" so regardless of the quality of your work, you should share it with others and look to improve yourself as an artist.

this project was partially inspired by Cyberdevil's "Project 2014, 2015, etc" over at the CyberDatabase. He's releasing a poem, lyric(s), or short bit of creative literature every day- consistently for the past 2+ years. I initially planned for creating new content for every day of the year, but that's overly ambitious; once a week is enough. Cyberdevil's primarily a writer who speaks through words and I'm primarily a musician who speaks through the highly interpretive sounds of  audible solo and sound. Not full tracks, or polished loops, but what I like to call "jams" of me improvising in one take over a  continuous 15-20 second loop (because that's the max time on my effects station). Nothing ground breaking, minimal external mixing, and a contrast to the more robust tracks I've primarily uploaded over the years. The idea here as well is to be profilic, to contribute something musically every week primarily for myself, and secondily to publicly publish some sick tunes for potential listening on the world wide web.

Reviews/comments always appreciated. I will check out your work too if you want so post your sick beats in this comment space below, please...I haven't made an audio review in 1 year WTF! or just chat it up. Woah it's a bit quiet around these parts. Fulfill what your temporary chemical reactions demands. That's all there ever is, if you think about it. No free will. No objective conscience or reality. No sentience. No science. No money. No emotions. Just interacting organic sludge that is slave to a series of temporary chemical reactions. If you think about it, it makes sense that music exists outside this realm and is the closest thing as to what we try to defy as life on this f*cked up sphere that was oh so conviently situated in the space which approaches infinity in four observable dimensions...

1. Midnight Haze

2. Beyond the Treetops

3. A Raven Lurks Above

4. Venice Car Garage

5. Drosphilia melanogaster

6. Between the Wheels and the Road

7. Since Love Immemorial

8. The Sherrif's Left Town

9. The Montenegrin Spy

10. I Wish I Knew Her Name

11. Suburban Sunset

12. Sympathetic Fallacy

13. That Boondock Bang

14. A Certified Hip Feel

15. Wack that Schmuck

16. Safe Haven

17. Day's End Blues

18. Soldier of Saigon

19. Dreaming Planet

20. Lost Summer Days

21. Slenderman Lurks

22. Throne of Beelzebub

23. Nosferatu Tales

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1. Midnight Haze sounds like 70's background music, from an A-list porno. Like the ones where they didn't (couldn't) record audio on set, so they spent a few bucks on these nameless bands, who made some damn fine instrumentals!

Happy new year dude, you sure know how to age gracefully!

hahaha what a great compliment to start off the new year! thanks man!

the musicians behind adult music will remain largely unknown, that's just the state of the industry and how America views sexuality.

thanks, you too.

Way more inspiring New Year post than the one I managed man! :D Happy Absolutely Splendingly Profoundly Arbitarily Celestialy Orthogonalizational Day to you too! And not just the day, but all days of this entire Absolutely Splendingly Profoundly Arbitarily Celestialy Orthogonalizational YEAR! Yeah! May each day be as deserving.

Looking forward to hearing all these highly interpretive sounds of audible solo and sound you have planned! I can't listen to Midnight Haze tonight, because it's waaay past midnight and I made the mistake of jumping to your userpage just as I was about to leave, wondering if there'd be something there... and there was!! Alas, I'ma have to wait till morning. This is why I wish I'd learn to never start things at the end of the day when I'm uncertain as to if I'll finish them. But, one of my a new(ly enforced) mottos for this New Year is also to: never wait. So, thus I'm leaving a response to the post, at least, right away. It's all but quiet in the quite wide stride of night I! Feel.

Thanks for all these CyberD project plugs btw. :) Will keep going this year too... though results may vary. Poems, lyrics, etc.

thanks man! if the Sun and Earth stay relatively in a constant cycle in their positions, there is only 8 geometrically possible orthogonal points/days in 3-D space, though.

Thanks for checking the music out! Yes, I feel. I've forgotten what mornings are. Because I try to stay awake as long as possible trying to pack meaning into, and always end up way short.

look forward to it, see you spiced it up with some art this year as well.

Ah, Orthogonalizational... there was a cache to that phrase! :O Hope you have an absolutely, Splendingly, Profoundly, Arbitarily, in lack of more advanced phrasing - Ever Transitioning Year, then!

Such is the way of the night. :) Need to work on earlier mornings too. Work started again; I have a habit of getting bad habits when there's no necessity to enforce good ones... two week's of falling asleep later and later ugh.

Indeed, in this year that leads, anything goes! As long as it may seem creative, however weak it's rated, I'll keep these superlatives in a stream like you get A kids. In School. Of life. Like fools, and mice... and fish. Swimming through the system, our viewing tubes of bliss.

My feed's a bit wonky lately btw, got a notice about your review response, but nothing about this message... a bunch of others I've been getting seem to be missing too. Anything you've noticed?

well it's just another word to use in place of perpendicular if you want to sound exceedingly intelligent. Yeah the feed doesn't seem to be perfect (neither is FaceBook/Twitter/Instagram/YouTubes/MySpace). Perhaps too much activity at one time and notifications might slip through.

It works. :P Yeah, perhaps so, though I've noticed no such quirks earlier, now pretty much all comments on newsposts be slipping through... NG's growing too big!

Hmm, newest project private? It appears "You do not have permission to view" A Raven Lurks Above!

oops...accidentally linked to the project file.

Thanks for telling me! And thanks for checking out the tunes!

dude wtf already the fourth week of 2016...time sure does fly around these parts huh. if only I was futureproof.

Around all parts huh. Unstoppable. Unslowable. Unmovable. Unphasable by our modern methods of measurement, and so much time we spend keeping track of it too. Time for a new review!

oh yeah you're right huh. it is true that time moves at the same place anywhere in the universe. Except in our dreams and Master Popo's time compression chamber in DragonBall Z. Thanks for the review!

yo i'm srs guys this year is moving too fast. It's already week 5 and I haven't really started to have fun yet

I feel the same way fo rizzle. Thinking it's work that's giving me such impressions, but maybe it's the daily projects... last time I tried getting in too many creative routines at once it felt like they were the only thing really in focus; time just fled by. I am having fun though! This weekend in particular has been a great weekend. Also: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/667858

Hope you find that fun again man! Really need to free some time for collabs too, projects from 2014 not finished yet... for shame.

I actually picked up a guitar earlier this week btw, realized I barely remember a single chord, but strummed around for an hour anyway, until I noticed I had a HUGE blister on the side of my thumb. Should probably start guitarring again a bit gradually huh.

Well, my routines have been the same as always, yet time seems to be moving at an increasingly increasing rate. I think the repetition, and monotony becomes a blur, which my mind's eye sees through. I only patch together the meaningful moments, thus when I have little, time moves retrospectively fast.

Yeah I saw that!! Phenomenal album, dudes!! Full review:

Not the type of music I'd usually listen to, but it was surprisingly great! The album is full of catchy riffs, uplifting vibes and meaningful lyrics, a beautiful lead singer voice (no homo) that matches the crisp, short, melodic lead guitar bits, complimented nicely by some Cyberdevil hip hop touches, subtle synthetic lines and backing trumpet lines to give the album an interesting ska flair. overall: a fun, well strung out music pieced proportionately over 12 tracks- starting off with a burst of energy, transitioning into a more somber, deep tone, rounding out the album with a more funky feel in the latter tracks, then finishes with a reflective addendum. the tracks were on the short side, yet the album feels complete while I still want to hear more!! (good art does this! didn't get bored once, listened to the album straight through now a few times in a row without interruption). To me, the album definitely has that late 90s feel, reminiscent of those fun teen movies, and bands of that era like early Blink 182, Sum 141, and Green Day before there music became pop saturated garbage. All the music is great quality- well mixed and mastered. Each instrument is crisp, clear and powerful, with the sound being punchy but not over-compressed.

1. Ignition: Great introduction with the great snippet of a punk song EQ'd to play on the radio, followed by a powerful speech regarding one of humankind's greatest accomplishments! The intro certainly ignites the album!

2. Great drums to back the simplistic yet catchy guitar riffs and bassline! Flows greatly from the previous track.

3. Sounds great, once again. A little too similar to the previous track for my tastes, but the brass lines create some nice diversity. I LOVE the guitar solo, short, simple but sweet, with a nice tremolo guitar riff stylistic of the punk/ska genre. Great open sound in the section following the solo, with the background vocals rotating in the stereo with the repeated "this is my heart!" in the forefront. Also ends on a nice note.

4. Great change from the last track! Opens up with a neat groove and interesting, harmonized lead guitar riff. I like the muted clean guitar riffs and groove during the chorus, with well developed horn lines. The lyrics are cool as hell, too cool for school that is. The track overall has nice variety, with the ska-reggae groove in points, and the semi-slapped bassline, and the short intricate harmonized guitar riffs.

5. A mule can be killed by shot in the head! who would have known. A great, extra retro sound preface to Cathode Ray Days.

6. You rock the offbeats nicely here! I like the short instrumental sections, backing vocals, and variation in feel. Nice tapping guitar solo, would perhaps like it to be a 4-8 bars longer, but the continuous changing stream makes the song effective and interesting.

7. Probably my favorite track of the album! That intro is awesome!! Gives a nice contrast from the comparatively more straightforward punk feel. Sick @ss drum groove and spiraling guitar solo that seemingly develops between sections. Some flanger/phaser FX on the lead guitar bits in part may give the texture some additional diversity.

8. Another great groove! The bassline is really cool! I like how you create some space with the bass dominant transitioning. The synth lead was a nice, non-invasive touch to the chorus section. I like the guitar solo against an open, deep rhythm section. However, it feels a little incomplete. Wouldn't hurt the album as whole if there was an extended instrumental section during a track, in my opinion. But overall the song is very well rounded, and the exiting riffage is great as usual.

9-10. hehe, I recognize that voice- it's the Bob Axell! A small, subtle beat with some unexpected 808 percussion in #9 followed appropriately by a crescendoing guitar tone. The rapped lines from you and the Cyberdevil are a great incorporation, especially the way both vocals were intertwined. and the backing sound is catchy and interesting as usual. I especially like backing vocal melody in the chorus, and that drum groove in the post chorus section in the first half.

11. The brass is on point in this song! Harmonizes with the other instruments rather well. And a profound sentiment- success IS not about what you get, but in HOW you get there. Some nice rhythmic vocal buildups to the cool guitar soloing. The driving beat is complimented nicely with the muted guitar riffs.

12. Well the track is good, but personally I didn't care for it as much as the others- just feels on the generic side. But the acoustic, soft nature is a welcome contrast to the rest of the album. I like how you incorporated space, and some lyrical sounding cellos to round out the song. The track ends nicely all the same, with a comforting trumpet tone, and uplifting chord to send the album off.

Full marks here dude!! It's a sweet ass album.

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2014/2015 projects, indeed! Well, for whenever inspiration strikes. No pressure.

Oh nice! Electric or acoustic? Nylon or steel stringed? Well everyone is going to develop callouses at first, but blisters are sign that you are playing too hard LOL. It's normally on the fretting hand that people have that problem with though. Well you could develop that callous and use it as a pick (in the sense of achieving the crisper, louder timbre you would get from a pick) like Wes Montgomery did.

Hope your fun continues!

Could it be... our perceptions of reality are morphing, the dimension we know as time growing shorter, affecting even our instruments of measurements without us knowing? Mmm, that sounds like a more probable concept. Holds true especially to time spent by the computer, even if it's all time well-spent, you don't notice it passing the same way.

Man oh man, that review!! That's a long review man! Appreciate it.... even if I'm just a numbered bullet point on there. :) I loved that #7 intro too, couldn't decide between that or 6 or 8 as second favorit, former so catchy, latter so relatable. First favorite chosen with great bias of course, but I'm really happy with how #10 turned out.

Fo shizzle! Some day!

Steel-stringed acoustic. Hehe yeah I probably was, in lack of variation and precision I probably opt for repetition and intensity. XD Likewise!

In response to review response: I was thinking of movies I've watched more than music I've heard, but I guess they're all some and the same. :) Thus such scenes sync with this kind of sound in my profound mind where everything is green ground.

everything's green in Sweden huh. or blue and yellow. seems like a good interjection point for a Middle-Eastern/African immigration joke but I feel it might not be in good taste.

know of any good Afro-wielding American Western movies?? worried I might not be able to fill up all 52 weeks in this project.

Only in my mind. :) Mmm it might turn out kinda blue!

Afro-wielding American Western huh, not the 60-70s action alternative (though I can't remember titles for any of those)? Posse (1993) comes to mind, though no afro's that I remember... as for afros in general, Black Dynamite with Michael Jai White might be as good as those good old days are ever going to get! It emulates the oldness well, though it's authenticity of ancientness is lost on publication dates and revenues.

Ah, but it's just 52 weeks! You can do it!! How about some grunge? Maybe a ballad? Or something different entirely: https://youtu.be/STlCiACRoY4

That's the 'Spanish guitar style' I was speaking of earlier btw, though without the added trance music. Don't think it classes as flamenco? How would you define it?

what about Napoleon Dynamite?? he has an afro and a Mexican friend running for student council.

I just don't want to release tracks that I'm not really happy with!! creativity comes and goes. I've got three grunge tracks in stock, but I want to space them out. One is reserved for a certain week that's not for several months. Jazz waltz ballad, soon. So that covers I was planning on making a latin jam this week but didn't get around to it.

I don't really think the style of guitar is Spanish (to me it's more Japanese in composition), but the piece features a nylon guitar as a lead instrument, which is where you may be getting those Spanish vibes from...is that sick anime btw?? or is it a hentai LOL

I haven't seen that one yet! Added to mah watchlist. Seems there's a correlation between afros and dynamite hmm, interesting. Maybe in ancient times these hairstyles where used to smuggle and explosive contraband..

Oh, you're really planning ahead! Sounds good. What other styles could I suggest hmm. Some different instruments entirely? Percussion? Synth? Whatever gets the creativity flowing again? It does go in waves. I'm on such a high wave lately I'm starting to fear the dune that must come after, if you can stay creative an entire year... how long when it disappears? O_O But maybe, like a surfer honing skills, you can learn to move from wave to wave without getting steamrolled and stuck in the lows.

Heh, it's anime. :) Was one of the first ones I watched, and the soundtrack really stuck. Grenadier btw: a specialized soldier, first established as a distinct role in the mid-to-late 17th century, for the throwing of grenades and sometimes assault operations. In this case, it's about a soldier of love! Fighting to bring an end to the fighting! Hmm, Japanese style with Spanish influence maybe? Interesting. I do hear similarities: https://youtu.be/yzlUQkE5WjU

Cloud Atlas needs to be at the top of your watchlist, though. Yes I had a friend back in the day who use to store marijuana in his afro.

Läderlappen and Boy Wonder diggin' it old school!

Swedes got it right

so apparently all of a sudden AdBlock prevents you from submitting content & making blog comments WTF! guess it's time for me to get the supporter upgrade again.

p.s. i'm eating cucumber yogurt WTF

Fun fact: I've never even tried adblock. Feels like I've becomeimmune to ads. I only see them if they entertain me.

Actually scratch that, some are annoying as hell, but I like to think I'm special... how did that cucumber yogurt taste btw?

I'm pretty sure NordicGrounds doesn't have ads! It's more of an American capitalist thing

it was unusual but good, thanks for asking. I mean cucumber don't have any flavor (it was cucumber-blueberry to be precise), so you can't really go wrong. The yogurt was augmented by having a crunchy texture. Would eat again

CRAP! I missed the deadline by a matter of seconds. At least there is two extra days this year (366%52=2). Would make more sense if we had 5 days in a week if I was in charge, and just disregard leap days (instead we have 24 days of 25 hours) every four years. in other news, this year is officially 1/4th of the way over WTF

And I haven't even started my training for the Kungsholmen Runt race in May yet. :/ No matter how we atomize our measurements, it's just too little!! Question is: how fast do we perceive time passes, compared to other people's perception of this same event? Or compared to the actual passing of time? How does this differ now, from then, where 'then' is whatever era of our history which we remember with the most clarity and least stress? But is the passing of time something we remember, or is it simply the moment, devoid of any such meticulous constraints? Also Congrats on by evenly distributed design of time making the deadline with just minutes to spare!

I didn't make the deadline though, I just missed it!

time to walk to Kungsangen & Back

By interpolating time at quicker frequencies?? Imagine one long whole note, which can be perceptively slower if we can hear the subdivisions. Or a basketball player dodging defenders to take it across the entire court to the hoop in a matter of seconds. Or an in shape runner completing a mile in 5 minutes- like an average song that comes and goes on a playlist, seems like an eternity when you're churning your muscles and focusing on mechanical movement full throttle. Like I implied in a post above, time slows down when your life is filled with events. Contrary to the popular expression, time doesn't fly when you have fun (Well I suppose 'fun' is a bit subjective, but what I really mean here is high energy, engaging, meaningful activity, which usually is enjoyable by extension). But perhaps, since we were having fun, we wish we had more time in retrospect!

Time and space remain objective constraints. However, the limit to which we can recursively divide space and time into smaller and smaller divisions. approaches infinity. Perhaps there is a theoretical limit, due to the laws of physics, where the neuronal cells within our brains can make only so many combinatorial connections, and thus a limit to how many memories our brains can store, how much events we can process per time, how finely we can interpolate life. Computers are getting smaller and faster, but the fundamental building block of a CPU- the transistor, are geometrically approaching that theoretical atomic limit (computer.howstuffworks.com/small-cpu.htm). Our brains however, IMO, are far from reaching that limit. Just watch the movie Inception, which isn't entirely fiction. Seemingly, days, if not weeks can go by during an eight hour hibernation phase.

Even with the added 1 hour bonus in regard to those additional two days, distributed evenly across said 52 weeks of the year?

Yupp, soon as I get this hip bursitis healed! I can't wait! I mean I have no patience for this sort of thing at all! I just want to get outside! Right now! Argh! <- incredibly concise written interpretation of the angst and annoyance I feel when confronted by the prospect of undesirably constrained motionability.

Ah, that explains the sensation! And interesting link on microprocessors, transistors, and the weird world of quantum physics. So, theoretically, if we can better co-ordinate our thoughts, we can decrease the speed at which we perceive time. Or if we force our bodies to create larger doses of adrenaline even when we sit still and have subjective fun, via less physically engaging activities.

The concept of inception is really fascinating too, and how the perception of time seems to skew in our dream state, even though it's a state in which the mind supposedly rests and recuperates. Any trials you know of where people have tried to incorporate that state of mind during the waking phase; effectively boost our brainpower, without increasing the conscious strain?

I think it's consciousness that in the end, holds us back from perceiving time at a slower rate. Being awake, sentient, and conscious is all part of being a higher evolved being. Lower organisms are practically pure mechanical, and are extremely efficient at what they do. All the examples I mentioned above are the result of involuting an activity to the point where it becomes a mechanical, effortless feel. Like riding a bike or learning how to drive. It was difficult at first, took a lot of focus, and conscious strain. Once you master the ability you can turn corners and stop at red lights without even thinking about it, to the point where you could almost literally- in regards to a low conscious state, do it in your sleep. And divert your brain's conscious ability towards something else. Instead of stacking events horizontally on time, they are stacked vertically on top of each other given you more room in the one dimensional horizontal space known as time. More space = higher consciousness = growth as a higher species.

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